The Department and Health and Human Services announced the agency will issue waivers for the federal work requirement of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program  considered a central facet of welfare reform in 1996  Thursday.

The Information Memorandum states that the agency will be issuing waivers for TANFs work participation requirements for parents and caretakers as a way to find new approaches to better employment outcomes.

While the TANF work participation requirements are contained in section 407, section 402(a)(1)(A)(iii) requires that the state plan [e]nsure that parents and caretakers receiving assistance under the program engage in work activities in accordance with section 407, the memo, signed by HHS Director of the Office of Family Assistance, Earl Johnson, explained. Thus, HHS has authority to waive compliance with this 402 requirement and authorize a state to test approaches and methods other than those set forth in section 407, including definitions of work activities and engagement, specified limitations, verification procedures, and the calculation of participation rates.

The goal, according to the memo, is to improve employment outcomes by encouraging states to consider new, more effective ways to meet the goals of TANF, particularly helping parents successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment. HHS will also require states to provide a method for evaluation and monitor progress.

Oh good. So what was “not work” before can now be considered “work” to qualify for this hand-out. So, I suppose this means that babysitting your own children, which probably wasn’t “work” before, will now be considered “work” and . . . cha-ching, free money.

TANF replaced AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) under the Clinton welfare reform. It was supposed to be work focused and time limited. The idea was to bridge someone from Food Stamps and other non-working welfare programs to work, by providing some limited cash assistance. The goal was to remove the issue of it being more lucrative to not work and be on welfare, than to work a menial job.

Obama removing the work requirement flies in the face of the public law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton. This is more lawlessness by Obama simply to bankrupt the country and buy votes.

Obama is definitely setting the country up for something. He issues so many executive orders it is hard to remember what they were from one to the next. Someone on the inside needs to step up and arrest this napolionic clown and his minions for treason.

The R’s in the U.S. House and the Speaker, have NO 00’s
What the hell are they doing in the U.S. House? If this were an “R” doing the crap that this guy is doing, the RATS would be all over this like stink on poop.

What a shame. Welfare reform act actually worked and was one of the few things the Republican congress did when Newt lead them to victory years ago. Clinton signed the bill because it was popular and it was an election year.

This is a clarion call to the men and women of the United States of America: make a stand NOW. You must make a peaceful and civil stand now! When you stand you shall stand upon the Constitution. We The People must say enough is enough! We have had enough of the Executive branch going around the Legislative Branch.

The motivations matter not. The results matter not. The methods that Preisdent Obama has used to impose his will are unacceptable. We have a Law and limits on Executive power for a reason. Look at the DOMA Law, the Immigration issue, and not this welfare issue. The more people there are on welfare, the less money there is for everyone on the welfare rolls. By allowing the States to ignore the searching-for-work requirement yes more people will jump on the welfare rolls. This will mean less money available for them and the people already on the welfare rolls.

The Law excluded the Search-for-Work requirement from being waived for a reason. Now, without Congressional action, President Obama and his administration has rewritten the law. In doing so he and his admin. have violated the checks and balances. They have made law without the consent of the Legislature.

He may have the purest motives. His motives don't change the fact that he is acting more like a Ruler than a Leader. Who do YOU, the People, want running the USA? A ruler or a leader:

Yet the kenyan born tinpot dictator can circumvent congress and the courts through executive fiat, all the while the Republicans in congress sit in the corner crapping their Pampers while sucking their thumbs.

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posted on 07/13/2012 5:09:43 PM PDT
by 2CAVTrooper
( For those who have had to fight for it, freedom has a flavor the protected shall never know.)

Let’s not blame the President for Congress handing its Constitutional power to the executive. We’ve been here before during the 20th century and we’ll be here again in the 21st until Americans demand a return to Constitutional government - Congress writes the laws.

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